Opinion

We are in a climate emergency.  Status quo behavior is our enemy. It is time for us to step up and do what is required.

Andrew Scheer has certainly waited an awfully long time to release his climate plan. Pundits had given up trying to pry one from him, and I have often tweeted about him being “the man with no climate plan.” Well, no more, at last the plan has been unveiled.

The battle against the forces killing our planet can be won only if the whole of humanity, not just Indigenous peoples, joins the fight.

Extraction industries seem to be the main game in town knocking at the Nisga’a Nation door with various "economic development" proposals. But we must say no, regardless of short-term gain.

Given that transportation is one of Canada’s highest-emitting sectors, the government should be applauded for its suite of policies aimed at increasing demand for low-emission automobiles.

Opinion: The Mental Health Commission of Canada has done for mental health what we desperately need done for LGBTQ2+ communities.

Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change writes that 'while the rest of the world is taking more action to battle this climate crisis, Canada’s Conservatives want to go in exactly the opposite direction.'

Grief itself is a well-known, well studied human emotion and there is much we have learned from the death and dying process of individuals that can help us navigate this larger ecological grief.

While we worry about Russian meddling, a transnational extreme right movement operates online with the goal of influencing mainstream political debate.

Feminist analyst Alexa Conradi says some Quebec legislators are operating under false assumptions that women who wear head coverings need saving.

A closer look at the most recent chapter in U.S. President Donald Trump’s playbook reveals just how much his politics could have lasting impacts here in Canada.

For the first time in the history of Quebec, the provincial government has no senior ministers and only two elected representatives from the island of Montreal. Will Dubitsky examines divisions emerging over proposals by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, notably a law banning certain public officials from wearing religious symbols.

The youth-led climate action strikes are backed by science. It’s time for scientists to join them, writes scientist Ellen Gute.

Amid all the talk of data sharing and citizen empowerment at a global summit in Ottawa, there was no mention that Canada is home to one of the most opaque, secretive rule-making bodies in the world: the International Civil Aviation Authority.

Taken as a whole, this project would thus further alter the terrestrial and marine ecosystems on which life on Earth depends, even as UN-mandated experts have recently confirmed an "unprecedented" and accelerating rate of extinction of species, thus eroding "the very foundations of our economies, our livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life around the world."